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# Pita Yuba at Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-saul-s-restaurant-and-delicatessen-pita-yuba/
- Published: 2026-10-06T23:11:04.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T23:11:04.000Z
- Description: Spicy sesame tofu-skin noodles, pickle, vegetables, lettuce, fries, tahina, zhoug, harissa on pita. Sandwich Score 56, solid. At Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen, Berkeley.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A sandwich at [Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen](https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-saul-s-restaurant-and-delicatessen/), a deli in Berkeley, California.

PitaHarissaTahiniPotatoLettucePickle (cucumber)Pita

**56**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +25.

Uncharted, five of six roles, half the layers have no partner.

**Holding the summit:** a finished composition

Balance

87

Harmony

87

Contrast

100

Structure

88

Focus

75

Composition

51

Quality

91

Envelope

93

−8 heat past the catalog

More heat than 90% of the catalog.

Each bar is one pillar of the score, 0 to 100\. The tick marks what a sandwich at the summit needs; an amber bar is the one holding this sandwich back.

**pita**, served cold: spicy sesame tofu-skin noodles; pickle; vegetables; lettuce; fries (low tier); tahina; zhoug; harissa.

Much of this build is inferred from the name; the score is a reading, and it stays out of Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen's typical score.

Worth a look: rare in the Bay Area (5 or fewer shops): Harissa; ingredient not in the pantry: Yuba (tofu skin), Mixed Vegetables, Zhoug.

## Balance

salt1.4 · 68thacid1.4 · 85thfat1.1 · 15thsweet0.2 · 31stumami0.4 · 10thheat0.9 · 90thbitter0.5 · 90th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.4   | 68th               |
| acid   | 1.4   | 85th               |
| fat    | 1.1   | 15th               |
| sweet  | 0.2   | 31st               |
| umami  | 0.4   | 10th               |
| heat   | 0.9   | 90th               |
| bitter | 0.5   | 90th               |

**87** Balance, out of 100

The seven flavor axes of the whole sandwich, each summed across its layers. The shaded ring is the catalog's middle 80%; the small number under each axis is where this sandwich falls in the catalog. A shape that sits inside the ring is in the range most sandwiches live in; a spike past it is where this one stands apart.

## What each layer brings

| Layer                             | Role    | Flavor and texture                  | Points     |
| --------------------------------- | ------- | ----------------------------------- | ---------- |
| pita                              | bread   | soft chewy                          | the frame  |
| spicy sesame tofu-skin noodles    |         |                                     | not scored |
| picklescored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid    | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | **+12**    |
| vegetables                        |         |                                     | not scored |
| lettuce                           | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                 | **+3**     |
| fries (low tier)scored as Potato  | bulk    | soft                                | **+2**     |
| tahinascored as Tahini            | sauce   | fat 4 bitter 2 creamy silky saucy   | **+15**    |
| zhoug                             |         |                                     | not scored |
| harissa                           | sauce   | heat 4 salt 2 smooth                | **−7**     |

Points: what the Sandwich Score would lose if that one layer were left out, everything else the same. A negative number means the sandwich scores higher without it. Flavor runs 0 to 5 on each axis.

## How to raise it

- Clear the board: heat past the catalog (-8).

[All the sandwiches at Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen](https://onesandwich.com/berkeley-saul-s-restaurant-and-delicatessen/) · [The menu this was read from](https://www.saulsdeli.com/s/05-SANDWICH-gksw.pdf?ref=onesandwich.com) · [Build your own in the Sandwich Builder](https://onesandwich.com/builder/)

Menu read 2026-09; items and prices change. The score is the site's opinion of the recipe as listed, not a review of the shop; tiers and house-made marks follow the menu's own wording.